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The Hot Hand: Statistical Fluke Or Genuine Article?
I'll save you hunting through the text. It's a real thing. If you want to know why, read on. If not, you just tell 'em W.M. Briggs sez so, which…
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Truth: Logic of Probability and Statistics
Here, as promised, is rough, incomplete, outline-only, not-yet-finished, gist-only version of Chapter 1, Truth, for the book tentatively titled The Philosophy of Probability and Statistics (I'm also toying with The…
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The Somebody-Might-Get-Hurt! Fallacy
Word is our beneficent government, which loves us and would not see us fall into harm, is working on a design for a system of chains to anchor both citizens…
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How Teachers Learn To Identify Weapons From Non-Weapons
Yet another "educator" has confused the difference between a weapon and the fantasy of one. A 13-year-old boy from New Jersey was suspended from school for two days last week…
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Lawyer Argues We Should Ignore Inconvenient Laws
Ilya Somin calls himself a lawyer, and he probably is one, too. Therefore what he says about the law must be right. Convinced by Somin's arguments, I will later this…
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Science for the State; Or, Lysenko Lives
Jim Fedako (who wrote this piece; send him email) is a business analyst and homeschooling father of seven who lives in Lewis Center, OH. It sometimes seems that every regime…
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Boys’ Toys V. Girls’ Toys: Researchers Still Trying To Prove They’re The Same
Last Thursday I was at the warthog park at the butt end of 57th street on the East river, reading and enjoying the rare sunshine. Nannies and moms (mostly nannies)…
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Alchemy Hour
https://twitter.com/shopalchemyhour/status/451034368715534336 It's Happy Week here at WMBriggs.com: seven full days1 bursting with smiles, bonhomie, and the unadulterated love of my fellow man, no matter how wicked---but no! Joy begins as…